VirtualBox .vdi file to BOOTABLE .iso

Question

I saw a few solutions for that question but non of them was working for me. My goal is (pretty obvious) to make a custom made OS and make it bootable from USB.

The solution must work for both Windows OS and Linox Based operating systems.

I have tried : (***after converting the .vdi to .img)

sudo apt install iat
iat file.img file.iso

I have also tried to convert vmdk file with:

sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
qemu-img convert -f vmdk os.vmdk os.raw
dd if=os.raw of=os.iso status=progress

I does convert it to ISO but it's not bootable.

I want super clean solution without transfering the bootable part afterwards so it would be directly inside the original ISO file.

Thanks :D

I have also tried : VBoxManage clonehd heziGangina.vdi heziGangina.img --format RAW — zballa, Mar 08 '21 at 12:44
...and I also tried: VBoxManage clonehd heziGangina.vmdk heziGangina.iso --format VMDK — zballa, Mar 08 '21 at 12:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '21 at 13:37

Windows OS

First copy the .VDI file to C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

Then run the following command

CD C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
VBoxManage.exe clonehd --format VDI "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\FileName.vdi" "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\NewImage.img"

VirtualBox .vdi file to BOOTABLE .iso

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